This is what my CMS looks like today.
The awful part is that this is kind of an upgrade.
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I recently started using ChromePlus at work. It’s a Chromium project for Windows that supports IE Tab, thus taking some of the burden off the wobbly Dell desktop my employer has provided (I use Chrome for web, but our Convio CMS require IE).
Check out the favicon it pulls up for the CMS pages. In case you missed the comic strip, that’s Google’s way of saying that things aren’t going well.
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Our new upgraded WYSIWYG is now out of its pilot program, and you can have it enabled on your site. The main benefit is that it is Firefox compatible, so you will not need to use the PC simulator to access the Convio administrator interface.
— Convio
I Disapprove of Convio Content Management System
I can’t take it anymore, Internet. You need to know the truth.
Seriously. The only thing it does well is update URLs when you make changes to them or move pages around.
For everything else on the CMS side, I would rather use HTML files and a text editor.
Convio is slow. It only runs on Internet Explorer. It creates exclusively case-sensitive URLs. Its HTML editor is essentially unusable. Its pop-up windows lock out the rest of your browser. Its page previews are frequently inaccurate when the style sheets are applied on the published page.
There’s no way change defaults, so if you have >20 files in any given directory, get used to using the dropdown menu. The back button generally takes you back way further than you want to go, and God help you if you try to undo an edit with ctrl-z.
JavaScript makes it cry. .htaccess files are either not present, or non-standard in such a way that simple changes, like case-insensitivity and RSS feed direction, cannot be applied. Downtimes are frequent and seldom explicable. Expect to log back in several times a day.
This comes down when Convio’s CMS supports Safari. Hell, I’ll settle for Firefox. Anything but IE.
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